Volume one · The Old Testament
Volume 01Available now
The Pentateuch
The first five books of the Bible — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy — tell a story that runs from the creation of the world to the death of Moses on the edge of the Promised Land. At the centre of the five books is the Torah, the teaching by which the people being formed is called to live. These were the Scriptures Jesus knew, prayed and taught. Yet for many readers today they remain unfamiliar territory: ancient, sometimes strange, occasionally troubling.
Get to Know the Pentateuch, the first of eight volumes, is a warm, honest companion for getting to know the Bible — less an event-by-event account than a guide to what it all might mean. It traces the sweep of the story, then opens up five words at the heart of the Pentateuch's teaching: blessing, torah, sin, steadfast love and holiness — the vocabulary of faith Jesus inherited and made his own. Along the way, it faces the hard questions squarely, including the violence and patriarchy of the ancient world, and asks what these texts mean for readers now.
For readers, groups and communities
David Neuhaus, writing with Debbie French and Terence Creamer, brings deep scriptural learning together with a lived sense of what it means to hold faith in a turbulent world. With questions for reflection throughout, this book is for small groups, parish study, and individual readers — for Catholics, for Christians of every tradition, and for anyone simply curious about the book at the root of it all.
ISBN 978-1-0483-3478-4
Volume two · The Old Testament
Volume 02Available now
The History Books
A people, like a person, cannot know who it is without knowing its story. The History Books of the Old Testament — sixteen books, from Joshua to the Maccabees — tell that story: more than a thousand years in the life of the people of God, from entry into the land through judges and kings, the catastrophe of exile, the long return, and the struggle to stay faithful under empire. The Pentateuch told how the people received the torah; these books tell how they lived it — and how often they didn't.
Get to Know the History Books opens up this vast epic for today's readers. It asks what kind of history this is — who wrote it, for whom, when and why — then follows the story Israel told three times, each telling with its own lens: sin, death and confession; grace, resurrection and thanksgiving; heroism, fidelity and the saints. It does not look away from the difficult pages — the violence, the politics, the ways these texts have been used and misused — but shows how a story of repeated failure becomes, again and again, a story of grace. Through faith, this history becomes ours too — not a past to look back on, but a call to live faithfully now.
For readers, groups and communities
David Neuhaus, writing with Debbie French and Terence Creamer, brings deep scriptural learning together with a lived sense of what it means to hold faith in a turbulent world. With questions for reflection along the way, this is a book for small groups, parish study, and individual readers — for Catholics, for Christians of every tradition, and for anyone curious about the book at the root of it all.
ISBN 978-1-0483-3479-1
